
RM de Leon: An artist who can’t be boxed in
“I live in a box,” says painter RM de Leon. “I have no studio. My place is small. If I have to do some painting, I just push everything around
“I live in a box,” says painter RM de Leon. “I have no studio. My place is small. If I have to do some painting, I just push everything around
RM DE LEON is one of our more irreverent postmodernist painters. He is noted for appropriating pop-cultural images, retouching them, sometimes even obliterating them, in an ironic deconstructivist twist. Collectors,
Freshly graduated from University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UP CFA) in 1985, RM de Leon’s first group show at the old Sining Kamalig in Pasay City was a sellout.
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